Puckish: adj. Mischievous; impish: noun. a blog containing scrapbooking, cardmaking, stamping, mixed media, cooking, life at a bed and breakfast and other generally colorful messes. And the occasional cute kitten. As true a tale as was ever told by Donya Schroeder.

September 26, 2011

Harvest Glow

It is another rainy Monday, but the leaves are starting to change, and I have a bushel of honeycrisp apples and a gallon of apple cider. Things to be thankful for. I think I'll go heat a cup of that cider while I tell you about this pretty thing.

I taught this card Sunday as the September Copic Class. I've got 3 extra kits for $4.99 each, if any one would like one, just leave a comment :-) and I'll get right back to you.

It's hard to see in the cloudy gray light, but the card base is a deep plum. The rest paper is from the Harvest Glow collection by Reminisce. I love Reminisce because #1 they are from Iowa, like me, and are therefore super cool, and #2 Reminisce is eclectic. They have more than one style in their bag of tricks so you never, ever say Oh, yep, that again. #3 and final is that Reminisce made this Harvest collection. People just about fall over when they see this one in person at Backroads Plum Crazy. It is so beautiful!!! Now there's pretty paper and beautiful paper, this is the latter. It glows (hence it's name) and is just lovely, classic, and warm like apple pie. Ach, just impossible to describe so you better just go look here at Reminisce's site. Or better yet, go buy some. Because it's better in real life, believe me.

The stamp is of course, my favorite Door County Stamp. I used Memento Cocoa Brown to stamp her so the lines wouldn't be so prominent after I colored her in with copics. I think if I make more of them for card club, I'll try it in Potters Clay so she just looks painted.

To make the frame cut and emboss Spellbinders Classic Frame, but leave it in the die. Stencil Aged Mahogany distress ink through the openings in the die, then pop it out and go over the whole frame with Vintage Photo. Looks like the Classic Frame must be discontinued since I don't find it on the Spellbinder site. Pity, it's very useful. Hope you have one already :-)